FINAL TOUCH : II PU ENGLISH

Instructions : Question Paper is reduced to 80 marks. 1 marks.      :  Be thorough with the text book. 4 / 6 marks : Read the summary of all the poems  Overall / important part of the lesson as mentioned  in the blog  notes . Grammar :     -Report/speech writing is deleted. +Letter Writing is an expected question so  be ready to attempt . +Linker/reported speech/passive voice - Refer blog for further notes. Better start now 🙂                    

 The poem, To The Foot From Its Child by Pablo Neruda , expresses the  realities of life imposed on human by the society. Through the image of  foot, being a metaphor for the child, describes the various stages of life ; infancy, childhood, adulthood, maturity and finally death. To begin, foot is unaware it's a foot and wishes to be a butterfly or an apple ; to fly high and to lead a fruitful life.  The innocent foot believes that its imagination will be turned into reality. But as time passes by it realises the harsh realities of life; stones ,bits of glasses , that it cannot be a butterfly or an apple. Here the foot feels defeated in the battle of life and made to lead a life of prisoner, within the boundaries posed by the society.  Being in the shoe, it grows in the darkness and the humdrum realities of life and acts as a blind man . Slowly the foot changes itself in to a hard substance which depicts the agony and hardships undergone by the foot.  The f...